Husain Afnan is an Iraqi architect. He was educated in Baghdad College (ca.1957-1961) where the school yearbook documents him as a talented and artistic student, promising a bright future as an architect, and who was involved during his school years in directing school plays, the debating academy, and was part of the student staff in the library and the artistic staff “Al-Iraqi,” the senior class publication. In 1964 he is recorded as enrolling on the five-year Diploma course at the Architectural Association, London. He took a year out, to gain experience, in 1966-67, returning to his studies and electing, in his Fifth Year (1969-70) to study within the AA’s Department of Tropical Studies. He is noted as having left the school in December of that year, but returned to complete his studies in January of 1971. Little is known to us yet about his subsequent life or career, beyond the fact that his corresponding address in 1979 was for a location in France.

Sources

• Architectural Association Student Register 1945‐1972, AA Archives
• Architectural Association Diploma Roll Book, 1964-75, AA Archives
• Architectural Association Membership Register, 1979, AA Archives
• Al Iraqi, 1957, published by the senior class, Baghdad College, Baghdad, Iraq
• Al Iraqi, 1958, published by the senior class, Baghdad College, Baghdad, Iraq
• Al Iraqi, 1959, published by the senior class, Baghdad College, Baghdad, Iraq
• Al Iraqi, 1960, published by the senior class, Baghdad College,  Baghdad, Iraq
• Al Iraqi, 1961, published by the senior class, Baghdad College,  Baghdad, Iraq